Trying to pick template ship crew, wife really hates our non-snapshot sniper
Posted Aug 20, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC
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For the Template Ship, I'd recommend a Normal.dot crew.
edit: 9 upvotes for a Microsoft Word joke?? That's r/XCOM, baby!
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Template ship & salt
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I say this all the time. Snap shot is king.
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In Vanilla it's fine. I preferred Squadsight most of the time, but a few Snap Shot snipers were useful.
In LW Snap Shot is a pile of absolute garbage that you should never ever ever ever pick.
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Why would you say that? snap shot is great because it allows you early on to move and shoot and later it allows you to stack ITZ chains
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It's better later than early. Early that -10 Aim and lack of Steady Aim is crippling :\
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Uh... SS early lets you take flank shots or shots you would not have gotten otherwise. So it's a +20-to-X to Aim, where X is the to-hit of the shots you would not have otherwise gotten and 20 is the minimum differential from getting a flank.
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If you want to move and shoot then equip a Marksman Rifle. They have exactly the same damage, trading a mere 8% crit chance for +1 mobility. And if you do find yourself needing unlimited range, then you use Precise Shot, which you took instead of Snap Shot because Snap Shot is worthless.
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Maybe you don't like to use snap shot, but to say it is worthless is incredibly ignorant. How do you like contact on LZ before you get ghosts and your sniper is worthless? or when you get screwed by a tree on a UFO map? These things and the fact that you can reload and then shoot with LnL+Snap Shot make it at the very least useful
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You could not be more wrong. I find it especially hilarious that you would even CONSIDER snap shot over squadsight in vanilla. That alone makes it utterly impossible to even take you seriously.
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If Squadsight is that essential to you to the point where you can't function without it and don't even know what to do with a Snapshot sniper, you probably aren't a good authority on this argument. I use both. I prefer Snapshot in most situations, but you can't really go wrong with either.
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Aaaaaand this is how you spot someone not playing Impossible/Classic ironman.
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Aaaaaand I beat impossible/ironman already. nice try though.
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Without using s.s. (edit: snapshot) as your first sniper, I suppose.
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I agree that Squadsight is a better pick for a sniper, and my first sniper definitely gets it. It's too valuable in early missions to have a sniper able to deal out some serious damage from relative safety. However, I have a lot more fun with snap shot snipers, and they are still quite good, especially once you can get ITZ
(non long war player)
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well, s.s. could mean squadsight OR snap shot so I don't know what you mean haha. My sniper that was on every mission for the "no cavalry coming" achievement was Double Tap and Squadsight, not snap shot. I made a snap shot one later but that was just to see how crap it is not having squadsight.
Anyway, this is a dumb argument. I love snap shot in LW and hate it in vanilla, so it's not like I'm categorically against it. I just don't see the point in a sniper that doesn't have squadsight.
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UGH why would any sniper not have squad sight.
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Not arguing snapshot vs squadsight, but for the temple ship, I can't imagine NOT having a double tap squadsight sniper on that mission. The layout of the level practically begs for it.
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/joke Is your wife single? /endjoke
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My first LW I was all about disabling shot over snapshot.
I decided to try snapshot on my second, and it has helped a lot. It is great for getting flanks in those foresty UFO sites, and very useful lategame on base assaults when you don't have the luxury of setting up sniper nests.
Also, being able to alternate [Shoot + Double Tap Shot], [Reload + Shoot] lets you keep up a heavy barrage of fire in extended engagements.
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^^^squadsight4ever
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A couple that XCOMs togethers...... Stays together..... erm.... ok you know what I mean lol.
Just never use eachother's names in the campaign... never...
Oh I like to play on the side of danger, I put my own name in the game and I'd put my gf's name in..... erm... if I had one hahahaha...
I heavily advise against it LOL... If she finds out you let her die, you'll be hearing about it by the time Xcom 5 is out. That and I've seen people make dummer decisions just to save their 'SO'
You sound like you have some personal knowledge from this :o. I named a character after a good role play friend of mine, she got a little upset when a seeker got a hold of her hahaha. She never died but I got a ton of shit for that one.
My GF has had a few incarnations throughout my campaigns. She was a really badass soldier in one, but died heroically with the rest of the squad in a botched bomb disposal. In another, she was a thoroughly competent rocketeer. But in XCOM 2, I can finally represent her properly ingame... as a badass Engineer. :D
Nickname: "Right Hand"